dauphins

Louis XVIII., much preoccupied while annotating Horace with the corner of his finger-nail, heroes who have become emperors, and makers of wooden shoes who have become dauphins, had two anxieties, — Napoleon and Mathurin Bruneau.

Les Miserables 2008

The dauphins have no such officer: but I will admit that they had.

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

Make no mistake, Roberts and Alia are carefully cultivated dauphins prepared from youth by the powerful few who think it is their birthright to own us all.

Think Progress » Samuel Alito’s America 2005

He had been punished on earth with five dead infants, the malformed children forced to walk strapped onto an iron cross, three dead dauphins, and a court that had drifted away one by one now that he was no longer amusing.

THE DIAMOND JULIE BAUMGOLD 2005

He had been punished on earth with five dead infants, the malformed children forced to walk strapped onto an iron cross, three dead dauphins, and a court that had drifted away one by one now that he was no longer amusing.

THE DIAMOND JULIE BAUMGOLD 2005

He had been punished on earth with five dead infants, the malformed children forced to walk strapped onto an iron cross, three dead dauphins, and a court that had drifted away one by one now that he was no longer amusing.

THE DIAMOND JULIE BAUMGOLD 2005

These are but a few of the numerous sham dauphins who have at various times appeared.

Celebrated Claimants from Perkin Warbeck to Arthur Orton Anonymous

Oh, dear, and here we are among the rich and great; and the steel kings and copper kings and oil kings and their heirs and dauphins.

The Younger Set 1899

Later, the agents of one of those false dauphins so numerous under the

The Life of Joan of Arc, Vol. 1 and 2 Anatole France 1884

When dauphins are as plentiful as blackberries in France and the court never sees a beggar appear without exclaiming: 'Here comes another dauphin!'

Lazarre Mary Hartwell Catherwood 1874